Pith Number

pith:X5WDGAFG

pith:2008:X5WDGAFGYMKWMN5W7VMGE5NCQZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Using Spatial Distributions to Constrain Progenitors of Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts

Cody Raskin, Evan Scannapieco, James Rhoads, Massimo Della Valle

arxiv:0808.3766 v1 · 2008-08-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5WDGAFGYMKWMN5W7VMGE5NCQZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:12:29.680986Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf6c3300a6c3156637b6fd586275a2867ff29d247f493599d6774a99362c02f3

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.3766 · arxiv_version: 0808.3766v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.3766 · pith_short_12: X5WDGAFGYMKW · pith_short_16: X5WDGAFGYMKWMN5W · pith_short_8: X5WDGAFG

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X5WDGAFGYMKWMN5W7VMGE5NCQZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: bf6c3300a6c3156637b6fd586275a2867ff29d247f493599d6774a99362c02f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "292fe95b5e5a7e8322a840f8ffe216e46f72178252c724b845d2ad4843875d42",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-27T20:53:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a954a84924ec1cbcbea1c83e3df6ff2dc2f786f2325ede83f8b0865923e967c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.3766",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}